Heat kills chickens but flock owners can protect their birds by taking a lesson from Theodore Roosevelt
When an intense heat wave descended on New York City in the summer of 1896 millions of people lived crammed together in tenements Around 1500 died from the extreme heat Roosevelt was then a little-known police commissioner who did two things that saved human lives
He ordered the fire department to spray water in the streets and on tenement buildings It lowered the temperature a few degrees And, ice In that era before refrigeration, tenement dwellers couldn’t afford to buy ice Roosevelt gave them
